Sunday

We saw the most beautiful dish in the new Cooking Light we received so we had to try it – Tomato Stack Salad with Corn and Avocado! While sometimes we can swing a side dish as a main meal, this one didn’t have any protein or carbs in it so we grilled up some tofu to go with it. “B” slathered the tofu with the sauce he used for the fish tacos last week (See FRIDAY’s recipe from last week) and it was spicy and delicious!

Tomato Stack Salad with Corn and Avocado

1/4 cup low-fat buttermilk (We use a splash of cider vinegar and the rest regular milk– let it sit for five minutes and ta-da – buttermilk!)

Monday

Newlyweds C&C came over for dinner! “B” really wanted to impress with his fish tacos, but I kind of remembered that one of the Mrs. C didn’t really like fish. Luckily we had some marinated chicken in the freezer. So we took that out and grilled it up for tacos as well. This was my first time actually tasting the entire “oh-my-gosh, you-have-to-try-this” fish taco and it was actually pretty good. It seemed that C&C enjoyed them as well.

Tuesday

Pizzzzzzza! Love Pizza! This time we had an AH-HA moment. What if we used last week’s piadine recipe and just rolled it out larger to make pizza dough on the grill?! Brilliant! We made the piadine recipe and the split the dough in two. Half was rolled out to a make one pizza and the second half was placed in the freezer for another time. We had left over of the fish taco sauce so we used that as the “tomato” sauce. We also used kalamata olives, arugula, spinach, sun-dried tomatoes and mozzarella for the topping. It grilled up pretty quickly on the bottom, so we finished melting the cheese by placing the entire pizza in the oven for a little bit. Overall it was a nice thin crust crunch grilled pizza. What we LOVE about pizza is you really can’t go wrong…put anything you have in fridge on there! — well ALMOST anything!

Wednesday

We rarely have steak, but we saw this recipe in the recent issue of Cooking Light and decided to try it:

Steak Sandwiches with Pickled Onion and Herb Aioli

1/4 cup water

1/4 cup cider vinegar

2 tablespoons sugar

1 cup thinly sliced red onion

1/4 cup mayonnaise

1 tablespoon chopped fresh or dried (just use less) thyme

1 tablespoon chopped fresh or dried tarragon

1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice

1 garlic clove, minced

1 pound flank steak, trimmed

1 1/2 teaspoons olive oil

1/4 teaspoon kosher salt

1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

1 (12-ounce) French bread baguette

1 cup arugula leaves

Preparation

1. Combine first 3 ingredients in a medium microwave-safe bowl; microwave at HIGH 2 minutes or until boiling. Stir in onion. Let stand at room temperature for 30 minutes.

2. Preheat grill to medium-high heat.

3. Combine mayonnaise and next 4 ingredients (through garlic).

4. Rub steak evenly with oil; sprinkle with salt and pepper. Place steak on grill rack; grill 5 minutes on each side or until desired degree of doneness. Remove from grill; let stand 5 minutes. Cut steak across the grain into thin slices.

5. Cut baguette in half lengthwise. Hollow out top and bottom halves of bread, leaving a 1/2-inch-thick shell; reserve torn bread for another use. Place bread, cut sides down, on grill rack; grill 1 minute or until toasted.

6. Drain onion mixture; discard liquid. Arrange steak evenly over bottom half of baguette; top evenly with onion and arugula. Spread mayonnaise mixture over cut side of top baguette half; place on sandwich. Cut into 4 pieces.

Thursday

This recipe is from the same issue of cooking light and yes, it’s another sandwich, but it was our favorite this week. (Though the first time we made it, “B” made the mushrooms way too salty for “F”‘s tastes) Try this recipe and feel free to change it up. On Saturday night we made a version of this but used grilled veggies instead of mushrooms–yum!

6. Top each bread slice with 2 tomato slices. Divide mushroom mixture evenly among bread slices, and top each serving with 1 egg. Sprinkle with remaining 1/4 teaspoon pepper, shallots, and basil.

Cooking Light, AUGUST 2012

Friday

It was the opening ceremony of the Olympics so we went to J&Z’s house for tea sandwiches and tea! How British! One of our favorite tea sandwiches was when “B” found some date nut bread in the refrigerated section of the grocery store and spread whipped cream cheese and sliced strawberries on it…. yum!